Machine for splicing fence-wire



(No Model.)

A. DE WITT.

MACHINE FOR SPLIGING FENCE WIRE. No. 393,423. v Patented Nov. 27, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcs.

ALVIN DE' WVITT, OF ELLIOTT, IOYVA.

MACHINE FOR SPLI clue FENCE-WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 393,423, dated November2'7, 1888.

Serial No. 282,359. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALVIN DE Wrr'r, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident ofElliott, in the county of Montgomery and Stateof Iowa, have invented a new and useful Machine for SplicingFence-W'ire, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide a portable apparatus that can be readilyattached to the machine for making wire fence for which United StatesLetters Patent were issued to me October 23, 1888, No. 891,404, and alsoreadily detached and fixed in the ground and operated to splice plain orbarbed wire.

I My invention consists in the construction andjoint operation of awire-holding device and a wire-coiling device, as hereinafter set forth,pointed out in my claim, and illus trated in the accompanying drawings,in which Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the complete apparatusin position as required for l practical use. Fig. 2 is a perspectiveview of the wire-coiling device separated from the wire-holding device.Fig. 3 is an enlarged section of the lower end of the bar, which servesas abearing for thejaw-operati ng screw.

a is a straight metal bar that has a hookshaped jaw at its top end and apointed lower end adapting it to be set in the ground.

I) is a shorter bar that has a corresponding jaw at its top end and aneye or shaft hearing at its lower end. Thesejaws a and Z) are pivotedtogether in such a manner that they will be opened and closed by themovement of the lower end of the short bar I).

c is a screw that extends through the eye of the short bar b and a screwthreaded bearing, (2, fixed to the long bar a in such a manner that thejaws can be operated by means of the screw, as required, to clasp andnnclasp the overlapping ends of wires extended in opposite directionsbctween thejaws.

g is an elbow-shaped iron rod provided with a hook on its end that isadapted to engage one of the wires in such a manner that the wire willserve as a pivot, while the outer portion of the hook engages theoverlapping end portion of the other wire and carries it around thepivot wire, as required, to produce a splice of common form. The hookconsists oftwo bights that extend at right angles to each other.

I claim as my invention A wire-holding device comprising the bar (I,having ajawat its top end, the bar I), having a corresponding jaw at itstop end and an eye at its lower end, threaded bearings at the centralpart of the bar a, and a screw, 0, extended through the eye of the barI) and the threaded hearings on the bar a, constructed and combined tooperate in the manner set forth.

i ALVIN DE WIT'P. \Vi tncsses:

i J. H. PETTY, i B. F. CRAIG.

